People

Mark Philp

(MA MPhil DPhil)

Professor of History and Politics, Dissertation Coordinator, Warwick University, Emeritus Fellow, Oriel College

Email:

mark.philp@warwick.ox.ac.uk

Phone:

+44 (0) 24 76150927 (x50927)

College:

Oriel College

I have been Fellow and Tutor in Politics of Oriel College and a Lecturer in Politics in the University since 1983. From 2000-2005 I was Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University.

My research includes work in political theory and political sociology, most recently on political corruption and issues relating to standards in public life, as well as in the history of political thought and British history at the time of the French Revolution. I am currently working on issues relating to political conduct and corruption, the re-imaging of democracy at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries, the Godwin Diaries, political realism and political ethics, and the history of political thought.

From 2007-2010 I ran a three year digitization project on the the Diary of William Godwin, 1788-1836, funded by a Levelerhulme Major Research Grant. The edited edition of the diary can be found at: http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

I teach and supervise mainly in political theory and the history of political thought. At the graduate level I teach papers in political theory, Plato and Aristotle, Machiavelli to Burke and research methods.

Peacebuilding and Corruption in International Peacekeeping 15(3) June 2008, pp. 310-27

Political Theory and History, in D. Leopold and M. Stears, Political Theory: Methods and Approaches (Oxford University Press, 2008)

Political Theory and the Evaluation of Political Conduct Social Theory and Practice 34 (3) July 2008, pp. 389-410

The substance and the shadow: Tale of Two Cities and the French revolution, in C. Jones, J McDonagh and J. Mee Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, and the French Revolution (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009)

Disconcerting Ideas: Explaining Popular Radicalism and Popular Loyalism in the 1790s in G Burgess and M Festenstein eds., English Radicalism 1550-1850 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007)